First time ever on vinyl. With liner notes by Masaaki Hara. Includes digital download. Purchasable with gift card. Sold Out. Outset Theme of Patlabor 2 Portent Wyvern Unnatural City I Asia Unnatural City II With Love Outbreak Zoom Down IXTL The amount of Aniplex releases that charge up to USD for a 13 episode series, and excuse it by sometimes adding useless extras and fluff is so annoying. This box set is exactly what it needs to be; Patlabor. Nothing else, so here's a great price.
More releases like this pls. Pick this up. This is great set to have. You essentially get everything the series has to offer. The first OVA series is a fantastic set up of the characters dynamic and the atmosphere of the world. Compared to other big robot animes like Gundam or Macross, you get something a little more grounded in reality not to say that it doesn't get a little weird at times. Basically an incompetent team of police officers piloting large robots to stop other large robots gone rogue.
Check it out if you want some of that classic, drawn on cel, animation. One of my favorite shows. Patlabor has always been one of my favorite series. It has an excellent cast of characters and tells stories that range through a wide variety of genres ranging from comedy to full on suspense thrillers to even things even more out of this world. The characters are endearing and memorable, the robots are super cool and there's something here everyone can connect with.
This set contains the entire series. All the OVAs, TV series, movies and even the mini-pato gag featurette and is easily well worth your time. I'd never seen this series before but I'd heard of it here and there. I'm glad I gave it a chance, as it instantly became one of my all-time favorite anime series. The insanely charming ensemble of characters allows Patlabor to be just about anything.
Police procedural, sci-fi monster romp, goofy comedy, or political thriller--you can find just about everything in this series between the TV show, OVAs, and theatrical movies. The collection is packed with content. Tsuge becomes the third point of that triangle, he's Nagumo's former instructor, with who she had a relationship that most likely resulted in her back of beyond, 2nd Unit posting, and now he's back, suspected of the terrorist attacks.
His return certainly causes her life complications, and she's soon conflicted between her former lover and her current loyalties. It doesn't help when the government appears to turn on its own police forces and military. Gotoh's left trying to help her and keep her out of trouble, without letting their superiors know, and even without letting her know. Patlabor 2 also excels in the big picture, painting a plausible scenario in which a democracy can spiral into despotism, playing on the tension that exists between a democratically elected government, and the military that is supposed to serve it.
It takes one man who understands that tension, who knows where to nudge, and who knows how to manipulate the system, to turn the tension into outright mistrust. You think that the end result is absolutely ridiculous, that a government simply cannot turn on its own authorities, but the way Patlabor 2 unfolds is so logical and considered, albeit with an occasional jolt from a plot device or two, that it becomes very believable.
In fact Patlabor 2 caused quite a controversy in Japan, with the Sarin attacks happening not long after its release, and critics began drawing parallels with a scene in the movie.
In every respect, Patlabor 2 is the better film. The animation is crisper, the music is grander, the story is gripping, the direction is spot on, and the characters are much more engaging. If Patlabor is a film to own for the place it has in the history of anime, Patlabor 2 is a film to own because it is just a damned fine movie. Make a whole lot of room on your shelf for this boxset.
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